News items related to fleet activity.
The Party Committee has been busy finalizing details for the 2015 ALCA Year End Banquet, to be held at Fieldstone Grill in Portage, on Saturday, October 3, 2015. See the flyer below for all the details. Don’t miss the Pre-Party at Win and Margaret Larsen’s house!
Below is the menu for the Banquet at Fieldstone Grill
This is our last scheduled week of racing for the year! My apologies for this late communication – hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and first weekend of college football – I know I sure did! Tonight’s weather is pretty iffy, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms and SSW winds at 9 mph at 6 pm – so stay tuned. It might turn out to be nice if there’s a break in the wave of storms. If we are cancelled, we still will gather at Brewster’s, so plan to come out anyway – I will call ahead to reserve “our spot” for us.
Regatta Chairman Cesar Santana says we have a few T-shirts left from this year’s Austin Lake “Dirty Thirty” regatta.
There are 4 mediums and 1 large left. They are being sold at a discounted rate of $10. Cesar will have them tonight if we sail and at the year end dinner. We can also make arrangements outside of those times (call, text or email). Proceeds go right to the fleet.
Summer’s back! Tuesday looks like the summer days of old, with hot temps at 86 degrees and SW Winds, at 7 mph, decreasing to 4 mph. We still meet at Brewster’s and will gather in the dining room to the left as you walk into the restaurant.
The summer series (and 2015 racing) is winding down, with tomorrow being Week 8 of 10. We’re looking at cool temps, with highs around 66 degrees F, cloudy skies and WNW winds at 10-15 mph. At Brewster’s following sailing, we meet in the dining room, as there is expected to be others in the room off to the side. Remember to save the date of our year end party – Saturday October 3rd – we are in the process of narrowing down a few choices for our end of year dinner celebration and will get that info out to all of you as soon as we know more.
Results of the protest that was heard last week will also be discussed at Brewster’s, so plan on attending.
Tomorrows’ forecast is for 5 to 10 mph winds out of the SSW and a 50% – 80% chance of storms. We have the room reserved at Brewster’s, so if we are cancelled, we can go there early. For many who have had numerous rules/right of way questions, this would be the perfect time to ask them, so plan to come out regardless of the weather situation. Who knows, it may just clear up!
We’re past the midpoint of summer series, the season is going quickly! We’ve been extremely “lucky” with wind, and it looks like it’s going to continue, with Tuesday’s conditions: NW winds at 10-20 mph and NOT decreasing too much into the night. We meet at Brewster’s afterwards, and as last week, another group is scheduled before us, so we’ll get the dining area to the left in the event that they’re still around.
A Photo page has been added to the website and can be accessed thru the Photos menu below the website banner. If you click on one of the thumbnail pictures, you will be taken to a gallery display page, which shows the picture you selected full screen size and has forward and back arrows on either side of the picture to take you forward (or backward) in the current photo gallery. Click the small ‘x’ directly above the ‘back’ arrow to close the gallery and return to the Photo page. You can also download the full sized file if you find a picture you like.
Have been adding pictures that Julie Lenczycki took while on the committee boat the week of 7/21/15. More pictures from that date are still to be added.
The good news for the week – is that we’re due to have some wind tonight, not like Sunday’s nuclear blast (ask Andy & Dave S.), but still should be windy, with the forecast at 10 – 20mph out of the west with sunny skies in the 70s around race time. Hope everyone was safe yesterday with those storms – the pictures were absolutely amazing of what was going on up north!
Our gathering will be at Brewsters – however, we may not have the room since there is another group scheduled for 6pm. SO for the first ones to arrive – if there are people you don’t know in the room, go to the dining room to the left of the bar.
Summer is here this week! Yay! We’re looking at a high of 90 Tuesday, with 5 to 10 mph winds out of the southeast, becoming light and variable into the evening. After racing we go to Brewsters.
In the event of a cancellation, if there are folks who are here to attend, we would meet for a rules review – so if the weather looks iffy, still come on over (for those who are out of town)! Location TBD, but for certain weeks, like tomorrow, we know we’ll have the room earlier at Brewsters. A rules review is something both the newer folks as well as many of us who have “heard it before” would greatly benefit from!
The only other thing here is to remind everyone that the year end party is scheduled for Saturday October 3rd – so save the date!